Jelly Talks!

 

Tune in online: http://jellytalks.yahoo.com/

 

Here's how it works

 

1. We'll invite an interesting speaker to a local Jelly, have 'em talk for 30-45 minutes.
2. We'll stream the talk live so Jellies around the world can tune in.
3. After the talk, anyone watching can ask the speaker questions via live chat. 

 

 

Upcoming Jelly Talks

• Nursing degrees Online hr degree Civil engineering degree Online private security degree Policing degree

   Friday, October 30th, 2009 - Hackable hardware platforms

  • Zach Klein, Director of Product, Boxee
  • Bre Pettis, Founder, Makerbot
  • Peter Semmelhack, CEO & Founder, Bug Labs
  • 2pm EST, 11am PST (time conversion)
  • NYCResistor, 397 Bridge St., Brooklyn, NY 11217 (gmap)
  • Be there in person!
  • Tune in online: http://jellytalks.yahoo.com

     

• This is where you come in! Tell your local Jelly organizer (or email us) what speaker you'd like to hear come to your local Jelly (or another Jelly city) and we'll pursue the most popular requests!

 

 

 

Past Jelly Talks

 

• Friday, August 14th, 2009 - How to Build a Happy Online Community
  • Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Threadless and Heather Champ of Flickr.
  • 11am PST, 2pm EST (time conversion)
  • At Nick's warehouse, 199 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
  • In San Francisco and want to see it live?  RSVP here.
  • Tune in online: http://jellytalks.yahoo.com/  

 

• Friday, July 24th, 2009 – Startups & New Funding Models

  • Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital (http://www.sparkcapital.com)

  • Shawn Broderick of TechStars Boston (http://www.techstars.org)
  • 2pm EST, 11am PST (time conversion)
  • At TechStars Boston, 727 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
  • See who's going & RSVP.
  • Tune in online: http://jellytalks.yahoo.com/ 

 

• Friday, June 26th, 2009 – Seth Godin Q&A Session!
  • Seth Godin will be answering questions from viewers live for the entire session. Ask him anything you like!
  • 2pm EST, 11am PST (time conversion)
  • At Treehouse, 33 Flatbrush Ave, Brooklyn, NY
  • Tune in online: http://jellytalks.yahoo.com/  

 

• Friday, May 15th, 2009 – SEARCH
  • Twitter: Eric Jensen (Twitter Search)
  • Yahoo: Vik Singh(Yahoo BOSS)
  • Google: Rajat Mukherjee (Google Custom Search)
  • 11am PST (San Francisco), 3pm EST (time conversion)
  • At Houseku, 223 Fair Oaks (near 23rd and Guerrero), San Francisco, CA
  • Tune in online: http://jellytalks.yahoo.com/

     

• Friday, April 24th, 2009
  • Seth Fitzsimmons (Fire Eagle http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/)
  • Ryan Sarver (Skyhook Wireless http://www.skyhookwireless.com/)
  • 2pm EDT (Boston), 11am PST (time conversion)
  • At Betahouse, 13 Magazine St, Cambridge, MA 02139
  • Seth and Ryan will be talking about the current state of Geolocation, and the cool things that people are building (or could be building) with the data now available to us via services like Yahoo's open Geolocation Platform, Fire Eagle or Skyhook's WiFi-based geo-location service (used by the iPhone).

 

• Friday, March 13th, 2009: Naveen Selvadurai (FourSquare http://playfoursquare.com/) and Amy Hoy (Twistori http://twistori.com/)
  • 2pm Austin, Noon PST, 3pm EST (time conversion)
  • At Conjunctured, 1309 E. 7th St. Austin, TX (near the convention hall)
  • You've probably already come across Amy's beautiful live stream of twitter, Twistori. Naveen's new app FourSquare is built in collaboration with Dennis Crowley, and it's a successor the famous (and recently killed) Google acquisition, Dodgeball. They'll be visiting Jelly Austin to talk about twitter, location-enabled mobile apps, and their latest projects.

 

• Friday, Feb 13th, 2009: Guy Kawasaki (Managing Director,Garage Technology Ventures, Founder, AllTop.com, Published author)
  • Many of you know Guy as Apple's first Evangelist, the author of Rules for Revolutionaries and The Art of the Start, or founder of AllTop. His new book, Reality Check focuses on practical tips for entrepreneurs. He'll be visiting Jelly San Francisco to talk about about entrepreneurship and share his tips for networking, creating community, raising money, and more.@guykawasaki 

 

• Friday, Jan 30th, 2009: Chris Messina (Board member, OpenID) and Dave Morin (Senior Platform Manager, Facebook)
  • Chris and Dave will visit Jelly San Francisco to talk about the relative benefits of OpenID and Facebook Connect. Learn why you should be using these tools for login on your site and how to get up and running quickly!

 

 

 

 

Participating Jellies

• San Francisco (1/30 & 2/13 & 5/15 & 8/14)
• Columbus, Ohio (1/30 & 2/13)
• Chicago (1/30 & 2/13)
• Bangalore (1/30 & 2/13)
• Vancouver (1/30 & 2/13)
• San Diego (1/30 & 2/13)
• Brooklyn, NYC (1/30)
• Boston (1/30 & 2/13)
• Jelly LA (1/30 & 2/13)
• Austin Jelly
• Kansas City (2/13)
• Heidelberg, Germany (1/30 & 2/13)
• Ithaca, NY (2/13)
• Atlanta (2/13)
• Houston (2/13)
• Dallas (Starting with Feb. 13th)
• Round Rock, TX (All!)

• Fullerton, Orange county, California (2/13)

• Bryan/College Station (starting Feb. 13th)
• New York (Showing all of 'em!)
• Budapest, Hungary (4/24) (5/15) (6/26)

 

 

How to participate

• Organize a Jelly in your town for the Jelly Talks listed above (or tell your local organizer to you want to help) so you and your friends can tune in and ask questions!
• If you've planned a jelly, add it to the participating jellies list above!
• Tell your Jelly organizer who you'd like to see speak at the next Jelly Talks session.
• Tell your friends at Jelly Talks and invite them to Jelly!

 

 

Thanks! 

To everyone who's helped put together Jelly Talks and spread the word -- you rock! And A big thanks to the crew over at Yahoo! for helping to make Jelly Talks possible.